The King's Christian School
5 Carnegie Plaza
Cherry Hill, NJ 08003
856-489-6720
TKCS Team Members: Pam Silverman, Sue Bowman, Debra Crutchfield

B2 Breakfast Bunch

Project Goals:

• To introduce teachers to the mentoring program and establish a continuous teacher mentoring cycle in the use of 21st century skills and digital technologies.
• To explore the distinctives of digital learners.
• To engage teachers in emerging digital technologies available that support professional, personal and classroom learning in the 21st Century.
• To prepare teachers to become expert voices/mentors within our school and to expand their own learning communities outside our walls.
• To engage administrators to recognize and assess the natural integration of technology into the current school curriculum and lesson plans.
• Meet NETS standard for teachers #5 .__NETS for Teachers__

• PLP Team designs the training modules (March - April)
• PLP Team creates WIKI, the project toolbox (__www.tkcstemp.pbwiki.com__)
• PLP Team presents informational "hook" during a faculty meeting (May)
• Mentor Team members selected by PLP team (June)
• Mentor team will be made up of faculty members who are comfortable with the use of technology and are willing to explore and administrators.
  • Selection of team based on self-assessment and on prior knowledge
  • Upon selection, team members will be given access to the virtual classroom and homework to complete over the summer
• PLP Team stocks the "Virtual Classroom" (__http://tkcsbb.ning.com/__)
  • Mentor team joins Ning and follows information throughout the summer
  • Reading to include downloadable handouts by Ian Jukes
  • Videos
  • PLP Team adds forums and discussions modeling the ADVIS Ning.
• PLP Team initiates a forum for public presentation, "The TKCS Learning Table" (__http://tkcs.pbwiki.com/__) .

• Session1: 21st Century Teaching and Learning (September 2009)
• Session 2: Navigating the Information Superhighway (October 2009)
• Session 3: Wikis, Nings and Blogs, OH MY! (November 2009)
• Session 4: Social Networking and Education (January 2010)
• Session 5: A "What? cast": Media Production Tools (February 2010)
• Session 6: Now What: Where do we go from here (March 2010)

• Mentor team sets up and stocks new virtual classroom
• Mentor team members will be assigned 3 faculty members
• Each mentor will take his / her team through the 6 training sessions
• PLP members will stay involved as "Expert Voices" to assist each group
• Administrators will develop and imiplement new assessment tool which reflects digital integration